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August 30, 2005
Swans Sign Up New Jumper Sponsor
Don't worry the club will still have QBE on board and on front of the jumper, but come this Friday, the club will boast the CitiBank logo on the back of our jumper (pictured above). Of course I have no issue with this because it means more money to the club and thats a good thing.
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August 29, 2005
The Magoos Wrap Up Unbeaten Season
Well you expect they would of, but at least this time things were real close. Now the finals await for the young'ins.
Swans Reserves 13.14 (92)
Belconnen 13.9 (87)
Goals: Grundy 5 Schauble, Powell, Schmidt 2 James, Campbell 1.
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August 28, 2005
Draw For Week 1 Of The Finals
Well here is the draw for week one of the finals. We are off to Perth after they got knocked off top spot by Adelaide. For info regarding tickets to the match check with the Swans website or better yet ring the club. If we win we play a Home Prelim Final in a fortnight, if we lose we'll play either Geelong or Melbourne next week.
Friday September 2
West Coast vs Sydney (Subiaco) 6.30pm AWST
Saturday September 3
Geelong vs Melbourne (MCG) 2.30pm AEST
Adelaide vs West Coast (AAMI Stadium) 7.00pm ACST
Sunday September 4
Kangaroos vs Port Adelaide (Telstra Dome) 2.30pm AEST
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Swans Secure 3rd Spot
Well I made my way out to the MCG yesterday in the knowledge that the Swans were going into a match that we couldn't lose because we were playing a team that we knew didn't want to win and put their extra 1st Round draft picks at risks.
Therefore the main focus of interest was whether the Swans could win and wrap up 3rd spot on the ladder, see if Barry Hall could get the 5 goals he needed to tie for the lead in the race for the Coleman Medal and most important of all if we could get though the match injury free.
Safe to say that we managed to deliver two of the three, thanks to the self-less performance of best on ground Barry Hall who put team glory in front of personal prizes. He could of got to 5 goals quite easy, but he decided early on that he didn't want that Medal and allowed Nick Davis and others in the forward line to feast upon the Hawks weak efforts (clearly they were saving themselves up for Mad Monday tomorrow).
Clearly not much needs to be said about the match other than we won, played well in getting our best score for the season and got though with only Willo suffering a minor leg injury that won't be a problem going into Friday Night.
All in all a good day and a good result.
SYDNEY SWANS: 20.9 (129)
HAWTHORN: 11.9 (75)
Goals: Davis 4 Hall 3 O'Keefe, Goodes 2 Fosdike, Schneider, O'Loughlin, Ablett, Ball, Crouch, Kirk, Buchanan, Vogels 1.
Best Swan on Ground: Big Bad Self-less Barry Hall.
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August 25, 2005
Team Selections vs Round 22 Match vs Hawthorn
Well any thought that the Swans would go in our Round 22 match resting important player has been dismissed at the selection table. No changes were made to the 22 that lined up on Sunday. Clearly Roosy and the coaching staff have decided upon their team for the finals and injury willing this looks to be the 22 players that will attempt to do something that no group of Swans players has done in 72 years.
SYDNEY
B: Crouch, Barry, C.Bolton
HB: Mathews, Roberts-Thomson, Kennelly
C: Goodes, Ablett, Dempster
HF: O’Keefe, Hall, J.Bolton
F: Davis, O’Loughlin, Buchanan
R: Jolly, Kirk, Williams
Int: Ball, Fosdike, Schneider, Vogels
Emg: McVeigh, Powell, Schauble
NO CHANGE
HAWTHORN
B: Osborne, Hay, Dawson
HB: Smith, Roughead, Vandenberg
C: Clarke, Hodge, Lonie
HF: Lekkas, Croad, Franklin
F: Dixon, Taylor, Miller
R: Everitt, Lewis, Crawford
Int: Thurgood, Ries, Young, Brennan
Emg: Greene, Ball, Murphy
NO CHANGE
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Swans Trade Target.
Really didn't know what category to put this under, but anyway there seems to be a bit of noise coming out of the rumor files that the Swans are looking to make a trade for this man:
Now I admit he is a very good player, but why risk the team aspect of the teamwork the Swans have built up under Roosy by trading for a guy who admitted using the club to boost his contract value a few seasons back, made unwarranted comments about Crouch and basically is getting to the stage of his career where his form can only head down not up??
Anyway how many players under 180cm do we need on this team anyway???
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Maxfield Done for the Year
Well for the second time in the past week the club has decided to make a common sense decision and not attempt to rush back former captain Stuart Maxfield from his knee injury in the hope he could get a proper send off in the finals. After one and a half matches back in the reserves it was clear that Maxfield just wasn't up to the level required to be worthy of a spot in the senior team.
While the motive is honorable for a player who has given his all over 200 games for the club over the past 10 seasons, it was clear that Stewie was past his best and struggling to regain fitness.
The club line is:
Maxfield has been ruled out for the remainder of the season following discussions with coaching and medical staff which decided he needed immediate arthroscopic surgery on his troublesome left knee.
A decision on whether he plays on next season will be made at a later date as no doubt Stewie thinks he can play senior AFL football again and whats to see if he can get his knee right before making any final decision. If he decides to play on he'll be moved onto the veterans list in place of the retired Matthew Nicks and given time to prove his form and fitness. But thats all up to Stewie and I trust he'll make the right call regardless of what that call is.
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August 24, 2005
Barry Hall to Lead Swans into Finals Battle
So common sense has finally taken place within the walls of Driver Ave, with the club deciding to drop the rotation of the captaincy for the finals series that "could" of resulted in Ben Mathews leading the club into a Grand Final.
While the move has turned out to be better than expected and exposed players to a leadership role they might never of been exposed to, the fact the club could of been lead by Ben Mathews in a Grand Final meant the club had to re-think the policy and yesterday Paul Roos hinted that Barry Hall was all but going to be the captain come the final.
“I got some feedback from the leadership group today and they were reasonably keen for just one guy to do it during the finals,”
and
“I suppose as coach I am probably the one that makes the decisions but I will take this feedback, get feedback from the other coaches and we will make a decision next week.”
Clearly the club and leadership group saw Barry Hall was the perfect option for captain during the finals and is sure to be a captain that spreads fear into the hearts of the teams we will come up against in the coming weeks.
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August 22, 2005
Injury List After Round 21
Not much change to the injury list this week except for the slight corky to Jason Ball's thigh, which shouldn't keep him out this week if we really want him to play(and if it was my decision I would play him) and the injuries to Malceski and Spriggs in the reserves who were unlikely to make it back into the senior side for finals anyway.
Still here is the full updated list:
Jason Ball (Thigh) Test
Nick Malceski (Calf) 1-2 weeks
David Spriggs (Hamstring) 1-2 weeks
Ben Fixter (Lower leg) 2 weeks
Andrew Ericksen (Wrist) 2 weeks
Matthew Davis (Groin) Season
Matthew Nicks (Knee) Season
Stefan Garrubba (Shoulder) Season
Stephen Doyle (Ankle) Season
All I can say to it is, "at least we aren't St Kilda."
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O'Keefe Cleared to Play
Just as I expected in my match report, the AFL's Match Review Panel cleared Ryan O'Keefe of a striking charge against Jess Sinclair. So no doubt the club is breathing a sigh of relief. The panel ruled that O'Keefe
Pushed his arm back to break contact with Sinclair after marking the ball, ruling the contact only minimal and to Sinclair's chest.
No doubt he was lucky that the charge didn't cop any points and was thrown out, but still it show the stupid nature of the "new" reporting system when the emergancy umpire can report a player, yet the controling umpire who was only a few metres away at the time saw nothing wrong with it.
Ah well, I've come to expect that out of Troy Pannell who has taken a clear dislike to us of late.
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No Slip Up This Time - Swans Wrap Up Top 4 Finish
The Swans yesterday managed to do 3 things that most of us humble fans expected, 1) win the match and wrap up a Top 4 finish. 2) come out of the match without suffering a major injury and 3) honor the memory of our former head trainer Wally Jackson who passed away during this fixture last season. But in doing this they also did a 4th thing that I'm sure we all dreamt of, but weren't expecting - wiped the Roos off the park.
In producing their best first half performance of the season the Swans sent another warning to the rest of the competition that we are to be taken seriously and are more than in the hunt come September. What also must be worrying for many teams and pundits the Swans did this without Magic and Barry Hall having a major impact on the result and showed that we can win without them staring (even though it always makes the job that much easier).
The Swans broke fast out of the blocks thanks to the midfield winning the majority of the ball and delivering it with ease to the forward line to set up the match winning 37 point lead at quarter time. From there the Swans just controled the match with ease, not allowing the Roos' to make any sort of come back short of a few late goals in junk time towards the end of the match.
Despite clearly taking the foot off the pedal after quarter-time, the Swans made it clear they were getting close to their best form by playing accountable football when challenged but also displaying enough attacking brilliance to show that they are far from being the "negitive" side people in the Melbourne media have painted them.
As I pointed out above this match was not won by the Magic and Barry show as in past weeks but though the brilliant first half of Nick Davis getting 4 of his 5 goals for the match and show what damage he is capable of doing come September. What also impressed me was his committed efforts at the ball and the amount of it he won before having Glen Archer put on him at half time. Brett Kirk starred in the midfield as did Jude Bolton at times, while again Tadhg Kennelly showed his improvment staring in the first half running time and time off half back, setting up goals and attacks for us.
The only down point was the report of Ryan O'Keefe that hopefully will get thrown out as there was nothing in it at all.
The win as I said to start with wrapped up a spot in the top 4 and moved us up to 3rd a game clear of the Saints, which could mean that if we beat Hawthorn this week a trip to face the loser of the West Coast vs Adelaide clash on Saturday, a prospect that seems more appealing than before this week.
SYDNEY: 15.11 (101)
KANGAROOS: 9.10 (64)
Goals: Davis 5 Hall 3 O'Loughlin, O'Keefe 2 Goodes, Fosdike, Schneider 1.
Best Swan on Ground: Nick "Finger Licking Good" Davis.
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Magoo Update
We won yet again and very well at that (no surprises there) but the focus this week was the form of two players in Stuart Maxfield and Andrew Schauble.
From all reports Schaubs played well and went close to BOG, the match report on the Swans Official Site, stated that he stated the match at CHB and went forward in the second half to kick a bag of 6 goals. I think he might be putting pressure on Vogel for a spot in the seniors for the rest of the season in that case (not that Vogels has done anything wrong).
As for Maxfield, well he played the entire match but according to those who watched the match he certainly isn't close to being ready for a game of senior AFL football, let alone a senior AFL final. Time will tell with him I guess. Other to have good matches included Grundy (who should be added to the senior list next season), McVeigh and Moore. So going into the finals the seniors look to have in-form back-ups for every position except for maybe a certain B.Hall.
Anyway here are the scores and goalkickers:
Swans Reserves 30.13 (193)
Queanbeyan Tigers 5.4 (34)
Goals: Grundy, Schauble 6 McVeigh, Spriggs, Saddington, Bevan 3 Powell, Schmidt, Malceski 2
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August 15, 2005
Swans Crush Lions
What more can a football fan wany. A sunny day, mixed in with a good ground and the Swans putting the Lions finals hopes though the mixer with what will go down as the Swans best win of the season so far. I must say that therefore it was worth every cent I paid to be at Telstra Stadium to witness the biggest mauling the Swans have put a team though for quite some time. The fact my brother is a Lions fan play no bearing whatsoever (well I guess a little).
From the outset it was clear that the Swans were the only team out there trying to win the match thanks to the Lions run of injuries that forced them to play without most of their tall player options in particular Jonathan Brown, a midfield that was without Simon Black and a few others that would of done a better job than the 22 that ran out at 1pm Sunday afternoon.
Still the Swans could only play the team that is in front of it and to that end did what they needed to do and they did it as well as they could of hoped for. After 3 hard fought matches in as many weeks the Swans got the easy match they needed and at the same time proved to the football world that they could take apart ANY side at ANY time.
The signs shown by the players themselves were quite impressive, in particular that of Barry Hall who for the second week running kicked a bag of goals and had a hand in a few more, this led to Magic and O'Keefe kicking goals as decoy full forward's who worked off the lack of pressure that is the result of Hall taking up defensive pressure. The midfield led by Adam Goodes, Paul Williams, Adam Schneider and Luke Ablett in particular ran riot like never before. Even the defence had an easy time with LRT putting in his best ever game and Leo and C-Bolt having easier matches than expected.
The Swans led by 50 points at halftime after opening with 11 goals first half goals to the shellshocked Lions 3. Again the Swans kicked with the accuacy that was missing early in the season and with Adam Goodes and ruckman Darren Jolly dominant in the middle things were going well. You knew how the Lions were going when they moved Bradshaw to Hall in an attempt to not only replace the injured Mal Michael but at the same time try their last roll of the dice at stopping Hall from ripping the game apart. Sadly for them, it didn't work as well as they hoped with Hall kicking 6 goals before being rested for most of the last quarter. Sydney's five-goal second term included two each from Hall and O'Loughlin.
Hall and O'Keefe each goaled in the opening five minutes of the final term before Hall and O'Loughlin were rested on the bench, however as a 100 point win looked possible the Lions flooding started to turn the match into a boring drawn out game and the crowd reacted to this with antics that have been taken out of context (ie the Mexican Wave during the stoppage in play to treat Nigel Lappin's broken leg)
Still the party had started and the Swans didnt allow any comeback from the Lions to make the score look repectable.
SYDNEY: 19.10 (124)
BRISBANE: 6.4 (40)
Goals: Hall 6 O'Loughlin 4 O'Keefe 3 Crouch, Davis, Jolly, Mathews, Kennelly, Buchanan 1.
Best Swan on Ground: Barry Hall
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August 14, 2005
Magoos win again.
How many times can I keep writting this without it getting boring? Well I think I passed that about 10 weeks ago, so for those interested in the result from Saturday's match against second placed Ainslie here are the scores and goalkickers:
Swans Reserves 17.10 (112)
Ainslie Kangaroos 6.7 (43)
Goals: Spriggs 3 James, Powell 2 McVeigh, Willoughby, Fixter, Saddington, Schauble, Moore, Sundqvist, Shaw, Twomey, Jack 1.
Best: McVeigh, Moore, Sundqvist, Schauble, Spriggs, Powell.
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August 11, 2005
Team Selections for Round 20 vs Lions
No changes at this stage from the side that beat Essendon with Bevan, Moore and Saddington coming in to make up the extended bench. They should become the emergencies come tomorrow night. However the big news is out of Brisbane who go into this match looking even smaller than our midget squad thanks to their horror injury list being added to by their 186cm CHB from last week in Macdonald. He injuried his hamstring at training tonight and looks likely to miss this week. They still look a strong side, but clearly they lack the height down the spine. Anyway here are this weeks teams:
SYDNEY
B: Dempster, Barry, C.Bolton
HB: Mathews, Roberts-Thomson, Kennelly
C: Buchanan, Ablett, Crouch
HF: O’Keefe, Hall, J.Bolton
F: Schneider, O’Loughlin, Goodes
R: Jolly, Kirk, Williams
Int (from): Ball, Fosdike, Davis, Vogels, Bevan, Moore, Saddington
In's: Bevan, Moore, Saddington
BRISBANE LIONS
B: Johnson, Michael, Drummond
HB: B.Scott, Merrett, Adcock
C: Notting, Voss, Akermanis
HF: Power, Brennan, Corrie
F: Sherman, Bradshaw, McGrath
R: McLaren, Lappin, Black
Int (from): Baird, Spaanderman, Moody, White, Macdonald, Copeland, C.Scott
In's: Copeland, Spaanderman, Moody, White
Out: Charman (susp)
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August 10, 2005
The Weeks Heritage Jumper Is......
Yep the same one we have worn the past two year, which while good in the fact I won't have to buy a new one, I still would of liked the club to of worn the jumper we wore to our first two premierships in 1909 and 1918 (The White with Red Sash). Still I'll enjoy watching the Red Vee get its yearly run out this weekend.
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August 09, 2005
Nicks Calls It A Day
Well that pretty much makes the injury list I posted earlier today useless then.
Matthew Nicks has today retired from football after a 175 game career with the Sydney Swans. The retirement was brought upon after struggling to overcome a knee stress fracture over the past few months since dropping out of the senior side. He retires short of the 200 game club but does retire with Swans Club Life Membership and a 11 year career which saw him play some pretty handy football off Half Back and from time to time in his later days up forward.
As sad as this news is, it was painfully clear that Matthew was never going to be able to regain his spot in the side this year, nor re-gain the fitness required to make an impact like he once did if he went on next year, which was doubtful anyway.
I'll remember him best for his goals in his first match against Collingwood in Round 22 1995 which help sink Collingwood's finals hopes, his effort to keep Phil Matera kickless in last years finals win over West Coast, his bag of 7 goals against St Kilda in 2001 and of course his relationship with Home and Away "star" Tammin Sursok.
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Injury List After Round 19
Not much change to the list this week with Maxfield and Nicks close to full fitness.
Stuart Maxfield (Knee) Test
Matthew Nicks (Knee) Test
Earl Shaw (Hamstring) Test
Andrew Ericksen (Wrist) 5 weeks
Stefan Garrubba (Shoulder) Season
Stephen Doyle (Ankle) Season
Different story for the Lions who are without 11 senior listed players and look to be without most of their tall options.
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August 08, 2005
The Wait Is Over.............
.......sadly now all that us Melbourne based Swans fans have to live for now is waiting for the unthinkable to happen and see the Swans win a Premiership sometime in the next 60 odd years (only asking for one, God).
What the hell is this shit your asking yourself right??? Well this is the match review of the the Swans first win in Melbourne against Essendon in 16 years and in my case the first time I've ever seen the Swans beat those smug fools from out Essendon way "LIVE". Never mind the Swans didn't play to their best (well what's new in that I suppose) and that we struggled to put away a side that is having its worse season in over 25 years.
Still I guess the fact we were playing away from home, had this little jinx against us and faced an Essendon side that managed to have all three umpires in their pockets all night (more on that later) meant it was hard for the club to get into the match as they would of hoped. Still it was pleasing therefore that the Swans managed to play poorly and still soak up all the pressure the Bombers could throw at them and run away with a hard fought 20 point win.
Early in Saturday Night's match the Swans were in deep trouble. Essendon were getting the ball forward at will and Leo Barry was clearly struggling to contain Matthew Lloyd who managed to outmark Leo, or got Leo to commit the sin of holding on (despite most of them being soft in the extreme).
Three goals down quickly, the Swans turned to Barry Hall as he led from the front in the Swans march back to the lead shortly before quarter time thanks to goals from Hall, O'Keefe and then Ball. But just as it looked like the Swans would manage to take a lead into quarter time the Bombers got 2 goals within the final 30 seconds of the quarter and the good work of the Swans was undone.
Essendon started the second quarter off with yet another goal and the Swans were looking goners, however just like the first quarter the Swans though Hall managed to work their way back into the match and back in front of the match. Started by a goal to Hall, followed more goals to Goodes, Buchanan, Vogels and Hall. At this point it basically was goal for goal with the Swans looking like going into Half Time less than a goal down, only to again fall victim to a last minute goal to Essendon and therefore were 10 points down at the long break.
Knowing that they had to make a charge at the Bombers and quickly the Swans started the third quarter off quickly and moved within a goal quickly thanks to Hall followed by further goals to Goodes, Ablett, Hall again and then O'Keefe to make it a 5 point Swans lead again going into three quarter time.
However in a match highlighted by a lopsided free kick count in favour of Essendon, the umpires made sure they made themselves look stupid with what will go down as yet another sign that the umpires hate us. Scott Lucus managed to get a free kick in front of goal right on the break for what appeared to be a normal marking contest with no player holding or pushing. Either that or the umpires got fooled by an Olympic Style dive. That meant Essendon were up by 1 point.
Still that didn't stop the Swans as they got a quick goal soon after play re-started thanks to Michael O'Loughlin's freakish trap and goal off the outside of his right foot in the final quarter. However this was followed up by a moments of magic from Andrew Lovett. The sickening roar from the Bomber sheep felt that the game was slipping from us but thanks to some hard work from the midfield and goal to Ryan O'Keefe meant the Swans were 7 points up and looking like they had seen off the Bomber challenge.
Even when Nic Fosdike's clever goal was replied to by Essendon the Swans stood tall and saw off the Bombers with 2 goals from Barry Hall that put the game beyond the Bombers and allowed those Swans fans lucky enough to be at the ground to start their party.
SYDNEY 18.10 (118)
ESSENDON 15.8 (98)
Goals: B Hall 7 R O'Keefe 3 A Goodes 2 L Ablett, J Ball, A Buchanan, N Fosdike, M O'Loughlin, L Vogels 1.
Best Swan On Ground: Barry Hall
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August 07, 2005
Now Things Are Really Becoming A Joke
Yep, a real close one this week.
Swans Reserves 22.21 (153)
Weston Creek Lions 1.3 (9)
Swans Reserves: McVeigh, Schmidt, Saddington 3 Bevan, Spriggs, Schauble 2 Willoughby, Quade, Powell, James, Fixter, Malceski, Moore 1.
Best: Schmidt, Spriggs, Willoughby, McVeigh, Saddington, Malceski.
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August 04, 2005
Round 19 Team Selections vs Essendon
Well no major changes to the side that went down to Adelaide last week, but as I feared we brought in Fosdike from Moore instead of a taller midfield/forward option like a McVeigh. So in dropping Moore we continue with the trial of Schneider/Buchanan in the same side. Other than that an impressive side. Essendon lose McVeigh to suspension, Solomon to a knee injury, Cupido for bad form. McPhee coming in would be my only worry from their group of in's.
Anyway here are the teams for Saturday Night:
SYDNEY
B: Dempster, Barry, C.Bolton
HB: Mathews, Roberts-Thomson, Kennelly
C: Buchanan, Ablett, Crouch
HF: O’Keefe, Hall, J.Bolton
F: Davis, O’Loughlin, Goodes
R: Jolly, Kirk, Williams
Int: Ball, Fosdike, Schneider, Vogels
Emg: Bevan, Moore, Saddington
In: Fosdike
Out: Moore
ESSENDON
B: Lovett-Murray, Fletcher, McPhee
HB: Bolton, Bradley, Welsh
C: Winderlich, J.Johnson, Murphy
HF: M.Johnson, Lucas, Hird
F: Lovett, Lloyd, Dyson
R: Hille, Stanton, Peverill
Int: Henneman, Richards, Rioli, Monfries
Emg: Alvey, Watson, Slattery
In's: Bolton, Monfries, McPhee
Out's: McVeigh (susp), Solomon (knee), Cupido
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August 02, 2005
Magic and Goodes named to Indigenous Team of the Century
No surprise to read today that Magic and Goodes were both named to the ITOTC - Goodes at Centre Half Back and Magic at Full Forward.
Team as follows:
B: Chris L Johnson Darryl White Bill Dempsey
HB:Gavin Wanganeen Adam Goodes Norm McDonald
C: Peter Matera Maurice Rioli Michael Long
HF: Nicky Winmar Stephen Michael Syd Jackson
F: Chris Lewis Michael O’Loughlin Jim Krakouer
Foll: Graham Farmer (c) Andrew McLeod Barry Cable
Int: Michael McLean Byron Pickett Michael Graham David Kantilla Ted Kilmurray Peter Burgoyne
Coach – Barry Cable
Umpire – Glenn James
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August 01, 2005
Now THAT was boring
Well normally I would write a match report of the highest (possible) quality so readers can get an idea about how the match went for the Swans but after Saturday Night, I can't bring myself to do so because we basically lost a match we should of won and in doing so lost all hope of finishing 2nd.
Really challenged the 2002 Draw against St Kilda as the most boring Swans match I have seen, but I guess at least this match was played hard and saw mistake after mistake let the Swans down, not a team playing 17 men in front of the ball.
We had enough of the ball to kick a winning score and in the last 10 minutes of the match we rained down inside 50's that went no where near the Top of the square or a player in Red and White for that matter. So as a result we lost a game by 7 points when we should of won (thanks Amon). Clearly the best player on the ground again was Goodes and again Hall went to sleep, thus meaning I believe the captaincy should go to Goodes long term, because he was the only one of the 6 "captains" who tried to lift the team late in the game.
Still after what I went though crowd wise at AAMI Stadium on Saturday Night at least things can't get much worse feral-wise. Bring on the Teenie Boppers that are the Essendon supporter base.
Swan Adam Goodes dishes off a handpass under pressure from Crow Brett Burton in Adelaide last night.
Photo: Getty Images
ADELAIDE 8.6 (54)
SYDNEY 6.11 (47)
Goals: M O'Loughlin 2 N Davis, B Mathews, A Buchanan, A Goodes 1.
Best Swan On Ground: Adam Goodes
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